FidMe Loyalty Card App Succeeds Against the Odds, With 3.5m Users and 6,000 Brands Now Signed Up

Tue, Mar 03, 2015 16:46 CET

Pioneering loyalty card app FidMe has topped 3.5m users, and now offers more than 6,000 brand loyalty programmes across 80 different countries. But things weren’t always so straightforward for the couponing app, which was initially sneered at, and the makers told they would not make a success of their idea.

The founding company, Snapp, had the idea for FidMe many years ago, when it was just a mobile agency creating apps – before smartphones and tablets were commonplace in everyday life. The team at Snapp, with their innovative FidMe idea, were told in no uncertain terms that consumers would never use their phone as a wallet, and the trend for digital loyalty cards would never take off – when in actual fact, a 2013 survey by the National Syndicate of Direct Marketing showed that 52% of smartphone users wanted to have their loyalty cards in their mobile.

The team continued to improve the FidMe offering and eventually felt confident enough to approach retailers and ask them to try out a digital loyalty card with their app. Many of them said no, convinced it would never work – but when Snapp released a demo version of the FidMe app, it received hundreds of thousands of downloads. The app had one million users after just one year, and reached two million users within eighteen months.

A spokesman for Snapp and the FidMe app says, “It took a long time for major retailers to take a chance on the FidMe idea – it was consumer pressure that eventually convinced them. The consumers of today are constantly looking for the ideas of tomorrow, and FidMe was one of those ideas which clicked with the public. Once we had the user base, we could start approaching retailers more seriously, and focus on making FidMe the Facebook of the loyalty card world.”

The spokesman adds, “Now, retailers are using FidMe as a medium to push their loyalty cards, deals, offers and discounts to as many as 3.5m users in 80 countries. We’ve signed up retailers large and small – with names like Office Depot, Pizza Hut and Smartbox offering their deals next to small businesses and local stores. FidMe has been a resounding success – and it’s only the beginning of our plans!”

FidMe is now Europe’s leading couponing and discount app. It allows users to carry around an unlimited wallet full of stamp cards and loyalty schemes, including Fidme’s, Digital Card and points system, without clogging up their actual wallet. All of the loyalty schemes are totally digital, marking a real step forward for businesses hoping to make an impact with smartphone-carrying consumers.

To find out more about FidMe, or to download the app, visit www.fidme.com

Dakota Digital for FidMe

Account Manager: Rebecca Appleton

Email: rebecca@dd-management.co.uk

Tel UK: 01623 428996

Tel US: 917-720-3025

About FidMe

FidMe is the European leading mobile loyalty wallet application. Free, and with no ads, FidMe is compatible with every smartphone, and allows users to register for stamp cards and loyalty schemes in-app.